Sat, 21 May 2005
Sponsoring Fun -- A Good Employer
My employer uses a lot of OpenSource software and develops custom
applications with Perl. It has a very strong tech team with ties to
a number of online projects and where possible it likes to give
things back.
I've been lucky enough to have been handed some money with which to show our appreciation to the different OpenSource communities whose work we use. While it's not a huge amount of money it is both a nice gesture on the companies part (it shows they understand both the advantages we can reap from OpenSource and encourages it's technical staff to stay in contact with their peers) it's also one of the highlights of my job. I've helped organise different events in the past and there is nothing quite as fulfilling as having someone come over and say "We think you're doing a great job, here's some money, keep up the good work!"; but this time I get to deliver the good news!
We've already pledged some money to YAPC::Europe 2005, an event all of our developers will be visiting and some will hopefully be speaking at, and I've got a list of another half a dozen or so events that'll be getting emails from me over the course of the year. Sometimes my job rocks.
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Posted: 2005/05/21 13:55 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
GLLUG Meeting -- June 11th 2005
It will happen! I've just been a bit slow in getting information out
about it. This is the second GLLUG I've put together and while it's fun it does take a
little more planning and effort than I have the time to commit on a
continual basis.
This time we're lucky enough to have three talks (at the time of writing this entry!), Matthew Block from Bytemark; the people I rent the UML box that hosts this site from. Ian Pratt from Xen, THE rising star in virtualisation software, will be coming down to talk about the technical details of Xen and finally we have Christian Smith and Stig Brautaset, both top-notch C developers, talking about Autotools.
This meeting is being held at the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University and as usual it's free for anyone to attend. If you're interested in Linux, virtualisation or even just interesting tech talk please come along and say hello.
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